Why do you think we Resist the things we want the most???

Answer 1

i reckon, the things we really need are the ones we often take for granted, and sometimes resist from.
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Resist to understand, first the foremost. We often fail to acknowledge whats best for us in most situations due to wanting....
wanting things we can never have(or should never have)
wanting things prematurely(not wanting to plan or wait, getting impulsive and impatient)
wanting more than what we really needed....

you either resist to accept this, or ignore the chance to grow.
because when you cannot have what you want,
it's time to need what you already have..

besides, if you really want or need something enough...
i dont think you can ever ever resist it...
if not, you dont really want it badly enough after all.

Answer 2

There are a large number of reasons why we do not vibrate in resonance with what we want and this is resistance.
One is that we hold beliefs which are inconsistant with our desires. ie. We want abundance but believe that the rich are evil. We want abundance but we believe that we are not worthy. We say we want abundance but we don`t really have any idea what for and therefore cannot feel what it would be like. We ask for perfect health but we believe that the road to heaven requires suffering. The point is that the words don`t mean much if we cannot at least imagine how having our desires satisfied would feel like. We might be grouchy most of our lives and cynical the rest and therefore never be in an allowing state. You might say that learning the law of attraction only takes a couple minutes but living it takes quite a bit more effort for most people. This is why so many tools or processes are described by Esther and Jerry Hicks in their book ^Ask And It Is Given^. There one finds 22 different processes to apply to ourselves. Enjoy. All is Well.

Answer 3

Hmm...interesting question. I am not sure exactly which things you are talking about. But, if we were to point to specific things, it seems like we resist the things like food, that we really love, because overeating of the particular food could cause bad health or obesity. Also doing the things you really love could lead to addictions such as alcohol or porn. So, I would say we resist the things we want the most because we do not want to fall victim to the thing we want the most. So, it seems like there is always a tension that keeps us in balance.

Answer 4

Who says we resist? If it is something we want "the most" there is no resisting. We find other ways of attaining. I think from you answers here, a lot of people do resist or just give up. I don't resist, I find alternatives. Good luck.

Answer 5

Interesting question...

I think it involves a certain number of things. As the other two answerers said, I too think it has something to do with ego, and fear.

Perhaps we're afraid that one day the thing we desire the most will simply disappear. Then where would we be? We don't want to become emotional wrecks. We fear loss, and eventual mental instability.

Some of us also don't want to feel submissive to that most-desired object. We might be too arrogant to show our deference for a certain object, and we rather just avoid it altogether.

In other cases, people resist the things they want the most because of ethical reasons, or maybe because they don't want to break a certain law. People don't want to get into trouble. You don't see pedophiles chasing after children in public every day, or people stealing expensive cars just because they want them.

In the case of love, I think people try to resist their love interest because they're afraid of heartbreak. They're afraid the other person might not love them back, and that the relationship between the two will become nonexistant.

Answer 6

We resist the things we want most because we are afraid that if we accept it, it'll disappear, which most likely will hurt us more than anything. So, we think to ourselves that rejecting what we want will hurt less than accepting it and then losing it, though that may not be the case.

As others said before, it may also depend on ego, and/or pride. Some people don't want to feel as if they are submitting or obeying to something/somebody by accepting whatever it is they really want.

Hope I helped!

Answer 7

"things?" Perhaps you mean love, or someone in particular.

Perhaps the timing is wrong. Or maybe we're not sure if its really a window of opportunity.

I think for me, its less a fear of rejection than a fear of vulnerability. You make yourself vulnerable to a person -- in essence you hand them your rawest, emotional self -- and the thought of it not being accepted is..... difficult.

So, I resist. And its not just about emotions. It could happen in a work situation (your idea gets shot down by the boss). School situations... social situations.

Sometimes I resist for what I perceive to be the greater whole.

Be well!

Answer 8

To determine why we resist the things we want the most, we must understand that what we desire most differs with each person. Not everyone resists what they desire most.

What keeps me from my desires? Fear. A fear of not knowing. I don't know if what I desire the most is truly attainable. I don't know if what I THINK I desire the most is what I TRULY desire the most. What if I were to fulfill what I THOUGHT was my greatest desire, only to find that attaining it made it lose its value.

Fear makes me resist what I want the most.

Answer 9

Actually it is our repeated wanting that becomes the resistance, as it signifies our inherent belief that either it is not being fulfilled, or somehow we are not worthy of it, either way we block it by our excessive wanting, Just asking and desiring something once is enough, next we need to switching into believing or allowing state, by believing that it is coming our way.

Answer 10

I think we know intuitively that we are the captives of what we fear to lose. So we are fearful that what we want the most will enslave us - or that failure in our reach for it will destroy us. It's a hangover perhaps from ancient belief in the power of external things - from people to objects. And the inculcated fear of both failure (which we feel diminishes us), and success (which we fear may put us under obligations but we may not be able to repeat). The trick is to learn that we have an internal identity and integrity which is not subject to externals - and that "failure" is not fatal but merely one of the steps in learning. What doesn't kill fattens! But fat we can control.